Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Peso Banco de La Alianza
| Issuer | Banco de La Alianza |
|---|---|
| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Old peso (1835-1959) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown. A central oval vignette encloses a bust portrait of a woman in three-quarter view, surrounded by elaborate lathe-work guilloche panels with numeral "1" counters at left and right. The bank name arcs across the top and "SANTIAGO" appears along the bottom in large serif lettering. The printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LA ALIANZA 1 SANTIAGO (Translation: Bank of La Alianza 1 Santiago) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Banco de La Alianza was one of several provincial Argentine private banks that contracted the American Bank Note Company during the 1870s, a period when ABNC dominated the South American commercial banking print market almost entirely. The bank itself was short-lived — Argentine banking law would be progressively tightened through the 1880s, and most provincial issuers of this type were either absorbed or forced to cease note issuance before the Banca Nacional era consolidated the currency.
S-prefix Pick numbers indicate chartered private bank issues, and Argentine examples from this period are underrepresented in most collections simply because provincial redemption and destruction rates were high.